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Originally Posted by Engine
Here is where you're going wrong. Don't read everything they tell you. First, figure out what you don't need to read (you'll have to sit through the lectures anyway, right?) and ignore that. What you do need to read, just skim. Perfect the art of reading beginnings and endings of paragraphs, or even beginnings and endings of entire chapters. Learn to rely on indexes to find important information. Bam.. You have just cut out 9-12 hours of work per week.
This is unfortunately how higher education works. Also, unless you plan to do graduate or post-grad school, then don't even worry about your grades. Just get the degree move on to a better job. Or quit school and do menial work forever (which is not necessarily a bad choice, it's your preference).
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This.
Basically, either learn to read critically or find people who have more time to do the work and then borrow their notes come test time. I can't envision a worse schedule than what I and one of my roommates worked through for 2+ years of college. 18 credits and a 65 hour work week, with 6AM classes 4 days out of the week and a third shift that frequently got off at 3AM. And the classes were 2 day drops, meaning if you missed 2 days you were dropped from the class and had to retake it on your own dime, usually on Saturdays for 12 hours (6AM-6PM). It
can be done, so just do it.